SDB 76th Annual Meeting Report

Total attendance was 567 people from 19 different countries. There
were 310 faculty/staff, 71 postdoctoral fellows, 186 students and 19
exhibitors. 358 abstracts were submitted, of which 299 were poster
presentations.

Ankur Garg, of Indiana University, was the recipient of the Paul D. Henion Graduate Student Travel Award.
The award provided $500 travel assistance to Ankur, a post-candidacy
graduate student, to attend the meeting and present her work Shp2 mediated activation of Alx4 in neural crest is critical for lacrimal gland morphogenesis in human and mouse. (Abstract #193)